Too Much Football On TV

I was clicking around the sports dial last night and came up on the ESPN College Football game being played at Akron. I got to that channel just as they were coming out of commercial and had an overhead shot of the stadium. The must have been at least 125 people at that game.

If the local area people don't even care to go to the game why should we as a national audience want to watch that game for. I chuckled thinking to myself that 24 hour a day television is way too much for the networks coming up with anything worth watching. I wonder what team the other night was the live basketball game at 4.00am in the morning when ESPN was showing 24 hours of live basketball.

I did watch the last few minutes of the Baylor-U Conn women's game when U Conn winning streak almost came to an end. If they had of been playing at Baylor U-Conn would have lost by 20.

Tonight you can get a look at the Gryphon basketball teams as Westover High from Fayetteville on the door step of Fort Bragg will be here. The games start for real next week.

Round Two of Football playoffs:

Northern Nash @ South Central- This is the second week of Northern's replay of their regular season as they disposed of the Firebirds last week for the second time. Friday night they should know the way to South Central since they have already played there once this season and won. There is no perfect format for the playoffs but it sure seems that if you have already won against your playoff opponent at their place already in the same season then you would be seeded higher than them for this one game.

Both of these team have improved drastically as the season wore on. Northern does have one thing that I like about this team. Their backs love to punish the tackler and none of them fall backwards while a tackle is being made. That wears on a defense as the game goes on. Northern will make it to thanksgiving Friday taking down South Central 20-14.

Roanoke Rapids @ Tarboro- The game is already sold out. They played each other earlier in the season and Tarboro had to hold on for dear life as Roanoke Rapids threw the ball at will in the second half. Former Tarboro coach Russell Weinstein will not wait to half time this game and will come out chunking the ball from the get go. Running teams know how to stop the run and Tarboro is a running team. Roanoke Rapids 34- Tarboro 28

All three local games involve teams they have already played before. North Edgecombe whipped Northampton West earlier in the season big. They will do it again. North Edgecombe 26 Northampton West 6

Last week I was three and two in the first round. Both the Northern and Tarboro games could go either way so they are toss up games. I could easily miss two out of three this week. This has probably been the hardest season ever to get a grasp of how all the teams are playing from week to week.